Nigeria News
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Pretoria -
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday began a visit to South Africa with a call to beef up protection of foreign nationals, weeks after xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg stirred tension between Africa's leading economies.
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Kano -
Horrific revelations of torture and abuse at a compound billing itself as a Koranic reform school in northern Nigeria have shone a spotlight on Islamic institutes unregulated by the authorities.
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Kaduna -
Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.
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Maiduguri -
Jihadists aligned to Islamic State have killed one of six aid workers abducted in July in northeast Nigeria, charity group Action Against Hunger said Wednesday.
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Benin City -
Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself "privileged". Last year, the 26-year-old left Nigeria with four other women, dreaming of a better life in Europe.
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Johanesburg -
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to pay a state visit to South Africa in October, the South African presidency said Saturday, after a spate of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg caused tensions between the countries.
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Lagos -
Nigeria intensified hostility with regional rival South Africa this week, in a harsh response to a recent wave of anti-migrant violence, with Africa’s most populous country asserting its leadership on the continent.
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Johanesburg -
Tensions eased between twin African powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria on Thursday after Pretoria temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in the rival state following a wave of attacks on foreign-owned stores there that claimed 10 lives.
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Los Angeles -
US authorities on Thursday announced charges against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation that netted millions of dollars from victims of internet con jobs.
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Abuja -
Nigeria on Wednesday announced that three years had elapsed since it last recorded a case of polio, a key step towards eradicating the notorious disease in Africa.
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Abuja -
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday handed out jobs to his new cabinet, insisting the government was able to meet Nigeria's challenges despite criticism that his lineup favoured ageing loyalists.
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Abuja -
Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaky, who was granted permission to travel to India for medical care after years in detention, returned to Nigeria on Friday following a row over his treatment, his supporters said.
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Lagos -
A Nigerian court on Monday granted bail to a detained Shiite leader and his wife to fly to India for medical care, in a move that could defuse tensions after his group was banned following a spate of bloody protests.
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Lagos -
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for stacking his new cabinet with ageing party loyalists despite hopes he might opt for more technocrats in his final term.
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A dispute over money within a Nigerian jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group has spiralled into clashes that has killed "scores" of fighters, sources said.
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An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday.
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Abuja -
A Nigerian Shiite group on Sunday condemned a court order that allows the government to ban it on "terrorism" grounds after a spate of deadly protests in the capital.
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Maiduguri resident Ahmed Muhammed wanders through the rubble left behind as he recalls the outbreak of fighting in his city a decade ago that launched the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
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Abuja -
At least six Shiite protesters were killed in clashes with Nigerian police in the capital Abuja on Monday, witnesses told AFP."I am right now in front of six dead bodies, one of them is an underage boy," a Shiite protester, Abdullahi Musa said.
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Niamey -
The four countries bordering Lake Chad on Friday launched a fund aimed at collecting $100 million to help counter climate change and a devastating jihadist insurgency.
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Rome -
Italian police said Thursday they had arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, including the leaders of a clan which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished anyone who rebelled.
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Lagos -
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will sign a landmark deal to scrap trade tariffs among African countries at an upcoming summit of the continent's leaders, his office said.
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Port Harcourt -
At least 45 people were killed and more than 100 injured in central Nigeria when a petrol tanker crashed and then exploded as people gathered fuel, emergency services said Tuesday.
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Lagos -
The Sarkin Fulani of Lagos sinks into his white upholstered throne, lays a hand on the sculpted golden cow head that forms the armrest and scans the subjects gathered at his feet.
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Lagos -
With over 200 million people and an emerging middle class, Nigeria is witnessing a boom in demand for meat that offers potential but also risks for the semi-nomadic herders who provide most of its beef.
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Sokoto -
Beneath an escalating conflict between herders and farmers in central Nigeria lies a relentless but often under-reported force: history.
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Kaduna -
"Move! Move!" The herders cry, the packed crowd divides, and a vast column of cattle charges through the swirling dust, their long sharp horns swaying like a forest.
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Kano -
Two attacks less than 24 hours apart in northeastern Nigeria this week have laid bare the deadly but divergent strategies of Boko Haram and a rival jihadist group, the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP).
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Kano -
Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group.
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Abuja -
European Union election observers on Saturday called on Nigeria to consider urgent electoral reforms after identifying "systemic failings" in the recent presidential, parliamentary and governorship elections.
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A picture of Enugu, Nigeria gives you a small example of how much land the insurgents have to hide in. However the wildlife is taking exception to having to share the space with them. Martin Kudr
Nigerian military forces have been accused of killing almost 80 villagers in retribution for the deaths of six soldiers last week. YouTube
A typical Buruli ulcer on the left hand of a 17-year-old boy in Nigeria. CDC/Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 13, Number 5.
A canteen in Lagos. The sudden increase in meal prices has forced some customers to turn back.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, with Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, Mr. Guy Feldman; Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare and Special Adviser to the Governor on the Environment, Mr. Babatunde Hunpe. Lagos state government
Cab drivers operate as late as 12:00 am in some parts of Lagos. This picture was taken at Ojuelegba area of Lagos.
A street in Lagos, Nigeria Courtesy Samuel Okocha
The Super Eagles of Nigeria in a prayer mood after a first half encounter with the Greek national team at the World Cup in South Africa.
A pharmacy shop partially opened for business due to the nationwide strike against government's withdrawal of fuel subsidy.
Lagos residents in church praying into the New Year 2012
Occupy Nigeria protesters in Toronto at Yonge-Dundas Square.
Here in a local Lagos bar, fans watch the AFCON match betwen Nigeria and Burkina Faso on Sunday
An art piece from used recharge cards
Richard Odusanya links Obasanjo to death of Bola Ige YouTube
A map of of Nigeria with the states comprising the Niger Delta highlighted Gozar
Basorun market, a typical small market in southwest Nigeria
Parents of victims last month's mass kidnapping from a school in northeastern Nigeria express sorrow and outrage Voice of America
A Primary Health Care center in Lagos, Nigeria.
A street scene from Lagos
Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian man has been incarcerated in a mental health institution by his family after saying he had lost his belief in God. Secular Talk
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